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'JOHN PFEIFER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTERCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 496,535, dated May 2,1893.

Application filed May 3, 1892. Serial No. 431,630. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN PFEIFER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographi'c Registers,of which the following is a description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My present invention consists in certain improvements upon the machineshown and described in my pending application, Serial No. 423,641, filedMarch 3, 1891, and its novelty will be herein set forth and specificallypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a top plan view of themachine; Fig. 2 a similar view with the lid of the easing and writingtablet removed; Figs. 3, 4 and 5 vertical sections on the lines 33, 44,and 55, respectively, of Fig. 1; Figs. 5 and 5 enlarged details of partsof the operating devices for the cutting and filingframes; Fig. 5adetail of one of the locking plates for the feedrollers; Fig.6 a frontelevation of the machine with the front wall of the casing and the lidremoved; Fig. 7 a detail view of the driving gears; and Fig. 8 a detailof the eecentricshaft for operating the locking plates which hold thefeed rollers in position.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts inall the figures.

The principal working parts of the machine are inclosed in a casing Ahaving a hinged lid B provided with an opening 0 in its forward inclinedportion, through which opening the memoranda is entered upon the paperstrips. These strips, three in number, are carried in three rolls, D, Eand F, whose spindles are suitably journaled at their left hand ends inbearings on the side of the casing and at their right hand ends in sheetmetal springs secured to lugs upon the sides of the casing and bearingagainst the ends of the rolls. The two check strips are led from therolls D E up over guide rollers G, thenceforward over the writing tabletH, and thence downward between two feed-rollers, I, J, and out of themachine. The record strip is led from the roll F up through a transverseslot in the plate H, thence forward over the front end of the saidplate, and thence downward between a second pair of feed-rollers, K, L,into the Fig. 7, of which the primary gear 0 is loosely mounted upon arock-shaft P journaled in the sides of the casing and having anoperating handle secured to its left hand end, which projects withoutthe casing. An arm Q fast upon this shaft carries a pawl R springpressedinto engagement with the teeth of the gear 0, by which the gear isturned when the shaft is rocked forward and remains stationary whileitis rocked backward. One end of a pin S passed through the pawlRcooperates with a curvedspring T, Fig. 4,1se-

cured along its edge to the inner face of the left hand side of thecasing. During the forward movement of the rock-shaft and arm Q this pintravels along the inner side of the curved spring and the pawl turns thegear. The extreme upper end of the spring isbent inward toward the axisof revolution of the parts, and when the pin S reaches this end of thespring it presses it outward as it clears it and the end of the springsprings back within the path of travel of the pin, so that in thebackward movement of the parts the pin will ride up over this end of thespring and travel back along its outer side, thereby holding the pawlentirely out of engagement with the teeth of the gear, instead ofpermitting it to slip backward over them. When the pin reaches andclears the lower end of the spring, the coiled spring connected to thepawl pulls it back into engagement with the teeth of the gear, carryingthe pin S inside the circle in whose arc the curved spring is located,so

that at the next forward movement of the 5 the spindle of the roller Kwhich co-operates with the roller L. Also fast upon the spindle of theroller K, beside the pinion V, is a large pinion or gearWV which mesheswith a pinion X fast upon the spindle of the upper feed roller 1. Thespindle of this roller has fast upon it, beside the pinion X, a pinion Ywhich meshes with a pinion Z fast upon the spindle of the roller J.Owing to this arrangement the two pairs of feed-rollers are driven atdifferent speeds, the rollers I J making several revolutions to eachrevolution of the rollers K L, with the result that at each forwardstroke of the rock-shaft P and operating handle, a length of the checkstrips about equal to the full length of the tablet plate, or openingabove it in the lid of the machine, is advanced by the rollers I J,while a much shorter portion of the record strip is advanced by therollers K L. Two transverse bars A 13' extend across the opening 0 inthe lid of the machine, above the tablet plate H, and it is intendedthat the various items of a sale shall be written upon the outercheckstrip through the portion of the opening 0 above and in rear of thelower forward one, B, of these bars, and that simply the footing ortotal of the items shall be written upon said strip in front of saidcross-bar B, with perhaps the number of the check and date or othermemoranda desired to be preserved on the record strip. Thus only thematter written upon the check strip forward of this bar B will beduplicated upon the record strip, and at each operation of the machinethe feed rollers K L will draw forward a length of the record stripabout equal to the width of the space between the bar B and the lowerend of the opening 0. In this manner the full length checks, bearing allthe items of the sale and other memoranda, are fed out of the machine ateach operation, while the use of the record strip is economized byentering upon it only part of the matter written upon the check stripsand feeding forward a proportionately less length of it each time. Theusual strips of carbon paper are carried in a roll within a receptacle Asecured upon the left hand side of the casing, and are led across thewriting tablet H between the respective strips of paper so that themelnoranda written upon the outer strip will be duplicated upon thosebeneath it. This much of the machine is substantially the same as thatshown and described in my aforesaid pending application.

The novel mechanism I have provided for cutting off all of the stripsand for filing the record slip on a pin within the machine may now bedescribed as follows: As the check strips are delivered from thefeed-rollers I J they pass out of the machine over a shelf orcross-plate 0 carried by the front wall of the casing. Apairof sheetmetal guide plates D secured to and projecting forward from a cross-barE connecting the upperends of the inclined supports M N prevent the endsof the strips curling upward and direct them out of themachine. TherecordstripFpasses from the feed-rollers K L over a cross plate F andbeneath a cross plate G, both secured at their opposite ends to thesupports M N, and thence into what may be called the filing compartmentof the machine, being the space between the forward sides of thesupports M N and parts carried thereby,and the front wall of the casing.Mounted at its edges in longitudinal grooves H in the inclined sup portsM N is a knife-carrying frame J, Figs. 4, 5 and o, carrying two serratedknives or cut ters K L, the former adapted to pass through a slot in thecross-bar E when the frame is lifted, and thereby sever the two checkstrips, and the latter adapted to pass through a slot in the plate G, tosever the record strip. Fitted to slide in guides M formed upon theforward side of the knife-carrying frame J is a filing frame consistingof an inclined plate N fitting at its edges in the grooved guideways anda plate 0 secured to or formed integral therewith and projectingforwardly at right angles therefrom. Fitting in a longitudinal recess inthe plate 0 is a sliding plate P carrying a filing pin Q and provided atits right hand end with an upwardly curved finger-piece by which it maybe withdrawn through a door way in the casing at B, Fig. 13. At its lefthand end the plate P fits under a spring clip S which yieldingly holdsit in position. The upper end of the pin Q is adapted to pass throughthe forwardly projecting end of the record strip and through a hole T inthe plate G when the filing frame is lifted. Under the constructiondescribed, when the filing frame is lifted it moves independentlyoftheknife-carryingframe J until the upper end of the plate N of thefiling frame strikes the crossbar of the frame J to which the lowercutter L is secured, whereupon the filing frame will pick up theknifecarrying frame and both will move upward together, the cutters K Lrespectively severing the check strips and the record strip, in themanner before described, and the filing pin Q passing through the recordstrip and thereby filing the latter 'upon the pin. A curved spring Usecured to the under side of the plate G near its right hand endco-opcrates with the right hand ends of the slips as they are filed,pressing them downward as their left hand ends are drawn downward by thereturn of the filing pin. Springs V at each side of the knifecarryin gframe, secured at their upper ends to said frame and at their lower endsto the base plate of the machine, assist in resetting the parts.

The means for lifting the filing and cutting frames at each operation ofthe machine may be described as follows: In rear of the rockshaft P,heretofore described, is asecond rockshaft X journaled at its ends inbearings upon the sides of the casing. Fast upon this rock-shaft X, nearits middle, is a forwardly extending arm Y having aslot in its forwardIIO end, in which slot fits a stud Z projecting from the side of a lug Aformed upon the rear side of the plate N of the filing frame. Fast uponthe shaft X near its right hand end, Figs. 5 and 5", is a collar Bprovided with an upwardly and forwardly projecting lug O Loose upon theshaft X beside the collar B is a forwardly projecting plate D A lug Eprojects laterally from the side of this plate beneath the lug O on thecollar B and a coiled spring F connected at one end to the lug E and atits other to a pin or screw upon the rear side of the collar B pulls theplate D upward and rearward, its movement in that direction beinglimited by the engagement of its lug E with the lug O Formed upon theright side of the plate D Fig. 3, is a cam G2 with which co-operates apin or stud 1-1 projecting from the left side of an arm I fast upon therock-shaft P. When the shaft P is rocked forward to its limit of strokeby means of the operating handle upon its left hand end, as heretoforedescribed, the arm I will be carried upward and forward to the positionshown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3. In moving to this position the studH will engage the rear side of the cam G near its upper end and rock theplate D slightly forward against the stress of the spring F as the studclears the end of the cam. The spring F will then reset the plate andcarry the cam back into the path of the stud, so that when the shaft Pis rocked backward by the return stroke of the operating handle the studH will engage the forward side of the cam and force the plate D upwardand rearward. Inasmuch as the lug E upon the side of the plate D is heldin engagement with the lug 0 upon the collar B fast upon the shaft X, asbefore eX-- plained, the plate D in its upward and backward movementwill rock the shaft X and cause the arm Y heretofore described to liftthe filing and cutting frames. The length and shape of the cam G2 andproportion of the parts are such that the cutting and filing frames willbe lifted the proper distance to sever the several strips and file therecord slip upon the pin, in the manner before described, before thestud H clears the lower end of the cam. When it escapes the cam thesprings applied to the cutting frame immediately reset the parts to thepositions shown in the drawings.

The spindle of the lower feed-roller L is supported at its ends upon theforward ends of short levers J 2 pivoted near their middles to thesupports M N respectively. The forward ends of these levers may beraised and lowered, to regulate the pressure of the lower twofeed-rollers against each other, by means of set screws K passed upwardthrough their rear ends and bearing at their upper ends against lugs orother projections L upon the supports M N. The rollers J K, of the upperand lower pairs, respectively, are separated and the roller K held inposition by fingers M projecting forward from plates N Fig. 5.

These plates are guided to slide backward and forward by means of screws0 projecting from their outer sides through slots P in the upper ends ofthe supports M N, as seen in Fig. 3.' Arms or levers Q pivoted to earsQupon the upper sides of these platesco-operate at their frontends withthe spindle of the upper feed-roller I, to hold it in position, and maybe adjusted, by means of set screws R passed through their rear ends, toregulate the pressure of the roller I upon the roller J beneath. lVhenthe plates N are slid rearward the fingers M are withdrawn from betweenthe rollers J K and the arms Q from engagement with the spindle of theroller I. All of the rollers are then free to be removed from the slotsin the supports M N, to permit the ends of the paper strips to be passedbetween them when new rolls of paper are placed in the machine, or forany other desired purpose. When'the plates N 2 are slid backward theends of the arms Q are withdrawn from engagement with the spindle of theroller I before the fingers M are withdrawn from between the spindles ofthe rollers J K. v The pressure of the rollers I J against each other isthus relieved'before that between the rollers K L. The purpose of thisis, that by sliding the plates N backward only a part of their limit ofmovement the pressure between the rollers of the upperrpair, whichadvance the check strips, may-be relieved while that of the lowerpair,'which advance the record strip, will be maintained. By placing hishand upon' the check strips and holding them from forward movement theproprietor at the end of a days business may give the operating handle acouple of forward and backward strokes, to feed forward and file the tworecord slips remaining between the front end of the writing tablet andthe cutting point for the record strip, without advancing and cuttingofi two sets of blank checks as would otherwise be necessary. v

The plates N are moved backward and fora shaft S journaled at its endsin the upper rear corners of the supports M N and pro videdon its righthand end with a thumb screw T Fig. 2, for turning it. The eccentrics areformed by grooves cut in the shaft in line with the plates N, as seen inFig. 8, and the lower ends of the plates are slotted or' forked as thereshown, to embrace the ec-" Q from the spindle of the upper rollerwithout withdrawing the fingers M from between the rollers J K, for thepurpose before explained, and how far to move it to completely too wardwhen desired by means of eccentrics on I release all the rollers, andalso the position to which to move it to lock them allin operativeposition as shown in the drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim- 1. In an autographicregister, the combination of a movable knife-carrying frame, a filingframe carried thereby and having limited movement thereon, and operatingmeans applied to the filing. frame for actuating both frames to severthe strips and file the record slip, substantially as described.

2. In an autographic register, the combination of a movableknife-carrying frame, a filing frame mounted to slide in guides thereon,a stop for limiting theindependent movementof the filing frame andlifting means applied to the filing frame for lifting both frames, tosever the strips and file the record slip, substantially as described.

In an autographic register, the combination of a movable knife-carryingframe, a filing frame mounted to slide in guides thereon, a stop forlimiting the independent movement of the filing frame a rock-shaft, anarm fast upon said shaft and connected with the filing frame, foractuating both frames, and means for rocking the shaft, substantially asdescribed.

4. In an autographic register, the combination of the knife-carryingframe J, the filing frame mounted to slide in guides thereon andcarrying the filing pin Q, a stop for limiting the independent movementof the filingframe the rock-shaft X, the lifting arm Y fast thereon andcooperating with the filing frame, the cam plate D loose upon the shaftX, the lug C fast thereon, the spring F conmeeting the two, therock-shaft P, and the arm I fast thereon and carrying the stud Hco-operating with the cam G on the plate D substantially as described.

5. In an autographic register, the combination of the reciprocatingcutting frame J, the filing frame mounted to slide thereon and composedof the plate N and plate 0 projecting at substantially a right angletherefrom, the removable plate I carry ng the filing pin Q, and fittingin a longitudlnalrecess in the plate 0' and lifting means applied to thefiling frame, substantially as described.

6. In an autographic register, the combination of a pair of feed-rollersfor the check strips and a separate pair of feed-rollers for the recordstrip, and a knife-carrying frame carrying two knives arranged indifferent cutting planes, one for severing the check strips and theother for severing the record strips, substantially as described.

7. In an autographic register, the combination of the supports M N, thefour feed-rollers I, J, K and L journaled in slots therein, means foroperating said rollers, the plates N provided with fingers M separatingthe two pairs of rollers and with arms Q bearing on the spindle of theupper roller, and the shaft S having the eccentrics co-operating withthe plates N in the manner and for the purpose described.

JOHN PFEIFER.

Vitnesses:

THOMAS CORWIN, F. A. LSNEQKNER.

